I've been looking on an XP machine what is using all that diskspace, and it turns out C:\Windows\Installer is high up there on the list of directories that use the most diskspace.
It seems to contain ...

I just ran WinDirStat and noticed that Google Chrome is using tons of disk space.
One file in particular is 5.9GB and hasn't been modified since July 11, 2013, its name is just: 00000001
What is this ...

I am in a situation where I am getting an error when I try to save a file to my Ubuntu server via ssh. It says there isn't any available space left. I don't know how that can be true. What should I do ...

The official Microsoft Windows 8 (64 bit) disk space requirements are the same as Windows 7: 20 GB.
In actual practice, how does Win8's disk space usage compare to Win7's? Specifically, how does disk ...

This is really driving me nuts. I do a lot of moving media files to and from USB drives, and I am constantly looking to the status bar to see how much remaining space I have on a drive. It's quick, ...

I'm trying to determine what's eating almost half of disk on my Windows 7 Lenovo laptop but haven't been able to determine what. I read some of the answers on this site but none of the causes seems ...

Should I check "compress old files" option while performing disk cleanup on Windows XP? What are the pros and cons?
Likewise, there is another option in Local Disk Properties window: "Compress drive ...

I have a 60GB SSD as my C: where I have my Windows and other essential program installations. I also have a huge non-SSD D:.
I repeatedly find myself short of disk space on C:. The main culprits are ...

I have Windows 7 running on a small (40GB) partition, with 4GB ram. This means that the hiberfil.sys file created by Hibernate takes up a significant portion of the available diskspace. I would like ...

This question is about what things I can do to reduce the size that Windows 8 uses.
Background example:
At present, and with only one program installed (MS Access 2007), I have used about 15GB of my ...

On my Windows 7 PC, the free disk space has gone down by 1GB even though I haven't downloaded or installed any new files and I haven't downloaded any updates or other things? What could have made the ...

I have Windows 7 Ultimate installed on my PC. The C drive has a capacity of 20 GB and I have only a few applications installed. Still, the drive shows as being almost full up to its capacity and keeps ...

Would like to be able to find full paths of files in a directory tree that exceed a specific size (say 10MB).
Currently aware of Microsoft's Diruse (part of Windows XP Service Pack 2 Support Tools) ...

My Windows 7 setup uses around 16GB while Windows XP only needs around 4GB hard disk space. Seems weird. I use Windows only for gaming so I don't need a lot of stuff they have to offer.
What is the ...

Back in the 90s, my home computer was an Acorn Archimedes. It had on it a piece of software called ArcFS, which allowed you to create compressed archives, a bit like zip files.
Unlike zip files, they ...

My hard drive became full. I am looking for ways to locate the things that use most of my disk space. I played with cron once so it may have consumed a great deal of space, but really I have no clue.
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I have Windows 7 installed on a 45 GB partition, and every now and then it gets full, and I have to resize that partition. I always thought this was quite normal. But it happened again today and this ...

In a raid 5 setup, you get 4 TB of usable space out of 3 x 2 TB disks. How is that possible?
Simple minded as I am, I would think that you need 4TB to store your things, and use the remaining 2TB for ...

I remember reading that when the available free disk space falls below 10% of the total disk space on the computer, performance is degraded.
If true, can someone explain this in more depth than what ...

I just bought a new external hard drive (WD Elements - 1 TB). In a PC with Windows 7, I formatted it by Right-clicking the drive > Format (Quick Format - NTFS) before using it and, and then checked ...

When I double click on My Computer, I can immediately see the Total size and Free space for internal and external HDDs, and inserted CD/DVD media, but in the same columns I cannot see these values for ...

I have downloaded the newest most stable Linux kernel, 2.6.33.2.
I thought I would test this using VirtualBox. So I create a dynamically sized harddisk of 4 GB. And installed CentOS 5.3 with just the ...